Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Public spaces in Britain's cities falling into private hands
Just over a year ago I added a post about the creeping privatisation of our public spaces.
At the start of this week The Guardian began a project to crowdsource a map of Britian's privately owned public space. One of the first map entries is in Hornsey.
Public spaces in Britain's cities fall into private hands article in The Guardian.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Privatisation of public space? Look no further than Shopping City in Wood Green. How about the traffic-jam generating Arena at Williamson Road? How about the vast shopping area near Tottenham Hale? How long before all our "public spaces" are actually in private hands, and patrolled by thugs in uniform from G4S? What about the whole Olympic Park - owned largely (after the Games) by Qatari investors. The world's rich (retired dictators, drug barons, Russian oligarchs who made billions by stealing assets like oil from the Russian people, etc) are encouraged here by successive British governments on the basis that a tiny bit of their massive wealth will trickle down to us, the 99%. So, how is that working out for everyone? And they are buying up everything, including, it appears, the British government. Aided in laundering their money and avoiding tax by our old friends the City of London. These things, making London "safe" for the international rich (ie keeping them away from the common folk like us, in case our poverty rubs off on them), gated communities, privatisation of public space, living in the city with the highest level of surveillance from CCTV etc in the world, retrictions on public demonstrations, all go together. And if it bad right now, just wait for the "Olympic Games" jamboree, when the whole of London is given over to the international rich, especially the corrupt international sports mafia, and their hangers-on. All of us live here, and work here, but we are being told we shouldn't travel, by road or public transport, to make room for the invasion, and the Zil Lanes; and tens of thousands of police, military and private security thugs will be telling us all what to do. Welcome to London 2012.
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You're right, Hugh, we should all try to identify "privatised" formerly public spaces we know about. It's good you posted the Guardian article (which I'd already read) as it spreads it around.
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